Scales and Their Chords

by JazzMaverick

17 Oct 2008

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This is my suggestion to some decent chords (or typical) which work well over these scales. I encourage all of you to try your own chords, too. But make sure they keep to the rule of the note! E.g. don't play a minor chord over a major note in a key.

Take this slowly, as not all of you are ready to learn this stuff. Please don't rush ahead! As boring as some stuff may be, rushing ahead will be your downfall. Understand everything and how it works before you move on.

IMPORTANT NOTE!

Unfortunately, I cannot insert the "natural" symbol. I will show you what it looks like in this picture:

Backtrack my friend :) If this is difficult you should go back and study the scales that I've listed. This lesson is basically explaining the chords which can be used in each scale and what works well for each mode within that scale.

For now you should work on the scales and try and study the modes within them.

Well, I don't see anything wrong with these keys, it's totally down to what tone you're trying to show and what you like to hear though, so i can't be too detailed. But basically you can create any song from any key you want.

Wrong... maybe the metal you listen to, 2jpe2, is baised off of minor chords and scales... but they're not ALL based on that... any single chord can be used in Metal - the fact that you're limiting yourself to only a few chords is very dissapointing.

Still, a load of metal songs are minor. But interesting thought Jazz. Can you suggest any metal songs not in a minor key? (except for some Van Halen style major progressions?) im really interested in that.

Trivium's new album, "Shogun" is pretty much all in Bb major (or B major I forgot, to be honest). I am sure there are more, but that is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. I know COB writes a lot of their songs in Major keys.

Jazz is right, you can't limit yourself just because you want to play a certain genre. True, many, many metal songs are written in minor keys and contain minor elements, but that is no reason for YOU to do that too. It's all about resolution and feeling.

Metal and Classical are very closely related... How many classical pieces do you know written in a Major key? And how many do you know written in a minor key? Beethoven's Symphony's No. 3 and No. 5 are in Ebm and Cm, respectively, while his Symphony No 7 is in A.

Metal is very much the same. There is no defining tonality for metal, minor or major - it makes no difference.